When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Living in the 80s
Did popular culture peak four decades ago?
A very British series
Dr Who has succeeded because and not in spite of its limitations
Boys need books
The gendering of publishing has gone too far
Let children’s stories be children’s stories
We need more respect for the childhood imagination
Physical media matters
We can’t trust streaming services to archive entertainment
The Crown down under
Is Australia still a sceptered isle?
Our kids need sad books
They appreciate beautiful melancholy
British past or American future?
Aussies have some soul-searching to do this Jubilee
The last weird decade
We have lost the oddness of the 1990s
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Green in name only
The Green Party doesn’t understand the realities of rural life
In defence of Michael Foran
Do not confuse the intensity of trolls for righteousness
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Don’t exploit Gisèle Pelicot’s story
Her legal triumph should be the start and not the end of the reckoning
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Assisted dying and the suicidal
The culture around assisted dying could aggravate the thoughts of the suicidal
The costs of assisted suicide
The trade-offs are real and extremely serious
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
